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Professor
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research / McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
Celia Greenwood is Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (www.ladydavis.ca). At McGill University, she holds a James McGill Professorship. She obtained her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Toronto, and her research involves developing, improving and applying statistical methods for genetic, genomic and high dimensional data. She was the inaugural and Graduate Program Director of the interdisciplinary PhD in Quantitative Life Sciences (www.mcgill.ca/qls) from 2017 to 2024, and is a former president of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (www.geneticepi.org), from whom she received their Leadership Award in 2022.
Assistant Professor
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
W. Alton Russell, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the McGill School of Population and Global Health and director of the Data-Driven Decision Modeling Lab. His research aims to enable the efficient, effective, and equitable use of finite healthcare resources by developing, assessing, and applying traditional decision modeling methods (mathematical modeling, simulation, optimization) together with data-driven methods (machine learning, Bayesian statistics). Dr. Russell received training at North Carolina State University, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment and Harvard Medical School.